Ross MacDonald

An ugly woman with an ugly gun is a terrible thing. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

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As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#getting #getting older #good #him #knows

As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game was being played. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

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Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#back #been #freud #greatest #i

Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

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How can a man help breaking the law when he don't have money to live on? ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#help #how #law #live #man

I had reached the point when I could not see anything clearly ahead, I needed help, and I got it. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

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I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

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Money costs too much. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#money #much #too #too much

My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

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